Anonymous

North Amercica

R&D hardware designer

Quote: "Microsoft has suggested Linux software infringes some of its intellectual property but has never named the patents in question."
That's a pretty bold non-committal statement, and one I would love to see them back up, and win in court.

Quote:"We are higher priced but we bring greater value."

Not really, It is generally accepted they ARE higher priced, but, insofar as bring greater value, not so much.
Unless your talking of the value they bring to their shareholders.
Windows is an unstable constantly changing OS which has morphed over the years into an overpriced under achieving bloated top heavy OS.
It's office suite of tools is good but not the best. I own a copy of WinXP and only use it to communicate with "other windows based companies", otherwise I live and breathe LINUX.

I challenge you to give me an example of something you claim can only be done in Windows, and not Linux...
You would loose the challenge.

I'm not saying a company should not make a profit, but quite the contrary, you need to make a profit, and it is achieved faster by making better, more reliable products and if you can do that with less R&D costs then all the better.
If you can do this while embracing the world with an open mind and a concept of idea sharing, then you will be much more widely accepted and successful, without the backlash from the oppressed.

If Microsoft continues to concentrate on litigation and proprietary OS protocols and not focus on actually improving their OS performance and reliability, then they will continue to face the "bad press" and wrath of the open source and world community.

I work for a large hi-tech company, all our R&D hardware and software tools are migrating to Linux, away from Solaris and Windows. Our office applications continue to be Windows based. I would guess by the end of this decade 2/3rds of our desktop, workstation and data center machines will be Linux based. I'm talking in excess of 60,000 machines.

In this changing world, a world with a global economy, a world without borders.... we are stuck, held prisoners, behind big Gates.